Another great book with good character development and story line but so missing out on giving it to them for their awful ways. Based on a true story of Georgia Tann of the Tennessee Childrens Home Society who took children illegally and made money on them by getting them adopted. Who in their right mind […]
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Fiction
A Man Called Ove
In the beginning it was confusing a bit…but I kept reading. The story was intriguing enough to keep reading. It seems like he introduced characters without saying who they were in Ove’s life but explained them in the next chapter. The book went on for a few chapters too long. Nothing really happened.
.99 Classic Kindle Books on Early American – Indians.
Great book on life among the Indians. If you like this book you will also want to read the following 99-cent classics on life with Indians: Bird Woman (Sacajawea) the Guide of Lewis and Clark: Her Own Story Now First Given to the World (1918) My Life as an Indian: The Story of a Red […]
The Book of Negroes
This historical novel should be required reading for every high school student. It is also known under the title “Someone knows my Name”. Aminata Diallo, one of the strongest women characters in contemporary fiction, is kidnapped from Africa as a child and sold as a slave in South Carolina. Fleeing to Canada after the Revolutionary […]
Made Me Think
2019 Books of the Year
My top favorites for 2019 were Educated and Where the Crawdads Sing. Nothing else came close. Everyone is writing stories with predictable endings or they just end with no ending. I like a story/book that leaves you thinking…wanting to know more.
To Kill a Mockingbird
Ok so I had to read this book because it seems to be on every list of top 100 books to read. I am sure I read it in highschool under the direction of some elderly English teacher who was overdue to retire. The story kept me interested enough to want to keep reading but […]
The Shell Seekers
I picked up a Kindle copy of The Shell Seekers (written in 1987) on sale and thought it was time to read something older and I think I probably read it a long time ago but can’t remember. It was the 10th anniversary edition with a special introduction by the author who told the story […]
The Book of Negroes
This historical novel should be required reading for every high school student. It is also known under the title “Someone knows my Name”. Aminata Diallo, one of the strongest women characters in contemporary fiction, is kidnapped from Africa as a child and sold as a slave in South Carolina. Fleeing to Canada after the Revolutionary […]
Non-fiction
.99 Classic Kindle Books on Early American – Indians.
Great book on life among the Indians. If you like this book you will also want to read the following 99-cent classics on life with Indians: Bird Woman (Sacajawea) the Guide of Lewis and Clark: Her Own Story Now First Given to the World (1918) My Life as an Indian: The Story of a Red […]
Fun with Books
The Need to Read
Do we have a ‘need’ to read? Someone just asked this in one of the Facebook book groups and it made me think. I personally don’t feel a NEED to read – like I feel a need to eat, make a living, have friends and need others. Many of the other responses said that reading […]
Best opening line in books
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley The primroses were over. Watership Down “Quiet as it’s kept,” from Toni Morrison’s Bluest Eye. I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills…. It was a dark and stormy night. He was dead. However, his nose throbbed painfully, which he thought odd […]
Literary Tatoos
Not Today Game of Thrones There is one thing we say to death…. Not Today Arya Stark Billy tells Bruno : You are just a sporting Goods Salesman Bruno says: Not Today City Slickers. My son turned ten just the other day He said, “Thanks for the ball, Dad, come on let’s play Can you […]
Best Book Quotes
“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.” —May Sarton Love. That was what she had that IT did not have.” ― Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time I did not come to heal her, the monster said. I came to heal you.”― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls “We are afraid of […]